Word: organists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall, gangling Lawrence K. Whipp, 52, was an impeccable ornament of Paris' prewar American colony. He was rather aloof, deeply religious. For 20 years he was organist, choirmaster and lay reader at the Pro-Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, the Protestant Episcopal Church's mainstay in France and a pillar of the American colony's social façade. Last week the whereabouts of Larry Whipp were a baffling mystery, and friends in Paris were combing his record for clues...
...spring of 1940, when chic society disintegrated at the approaching threat of German boots, Trinity's Dean Frederick W. Beekman fled to the U.S. Organist Whipp, left in charge, moved into the deanery to run the church. He held services for the few remaining parishioners (he could not perform Holy Communion), baptized six children, buried 40 Americans, visited and comforted the sick...
...Army approached Paris, Organist Whipp returned to his church, got busy repairing broken windows and furniture, organizing and conducting services. In November he wrote to Dean Beekman: "I am old, thin and tired. . . . Come as soon as you can." When the Dean arrived just before Christmas, Whipp greeted him jovially: "Take back your damned baby...
Bill Gurganus sporting his new Phi Beta Kappa pin while trying to join the heavy-set blonde organist at Shangri-La at the keyboard...
Christmas services to be held in Memorial Church Monday and Tuesday will feature a program of Christmas music sung by the Church choir aided by the Harvard Glee Club and the Choral Society of Radcliffe College. G. Wallace Woodworth '24, associate professor of Music, who is choir master and organist for the Church, will direct the group...